Supercomputers: The Next Generation – Cray puts burst buffer tech, Intel Haswell inside

Yes, yes, yes, very impressive

But will it run crisis at decent frame rates?

Very nice -

But they don't look as cool as the old school Crays did.

And more pressure from Intel to not include AMD's Firepro in the mix.

Just Wait

You can have one on your desk in 40 years

Reason :

In 1975 the 80 MHz Cray-1 was announced and delivered 80 MFLOPS.

Wikipedia has an interesting history of the early Cray machines.

eg The new machine was the first Cray design to use integrated circuits (ICs). Although ICs had been available since the 1960s, it was only in the early 1970s that they reached the performance necessary for high-speed applications. The Cray-1 used only four different IC types, an ECL dual 5-4 NOR gate (one 5-input, and one 4-input, each with differential output),[3] another slower MECL 10K 5-4 NOR gate used for address fanout, a 16×4-bit high speed (6 ns) static RAM (SRAM) used for registers and a 1,024×1-bit 50 ns SRAM used for the main memory.[4] These integrated circuits were supplied by Fairchild Semiconductor and Motorola. In all, the Cray-1 contained about 200,000 gates.